Quote Originally Posted by Diablo_Eichenwald View Post
You do know this is a game of a japanese corporation, right? Staffs who handle the game are mostly japanese, or foreigners living in Tokio for localization. Are you really asking them to work from 7pm to 11pm (which would be 10-14 UTC as your suggestion) so you can have your "play" time undisturbed? Also, do you have any idea how hard it is to not mess up a software when you try to change the codes? Sometimes a missed semicolon could crash the whole thing. I understand it's "annoying" that we sometimes don't get our daily dose of FF14, but I think this one lies on our side, we should be able to have joys in other things in life and should only treat FF14 as one of the options, all the time.
I'm actually a programmer so even if I'm not in the field of video games, yes, I understand very well how codes works.

I know that the game is a Japanese one, but I hope that you do realise that yes, some people also works on evening and night shifts. And nothing prevent them from doing it earlier then, they actually do it on times that are late afternoon-early evening in Japan, they could then do it on their morning shifts.

I don't think that your argument prevent the idea of a rotationary time for maintenance, it's perfectly doable.